Microsoft outlook inbox repair tool stuck on initializing
#2 - In terms of ScanPST - always best to use the version that came with the Office suite that created the PST file. The time on it since it will always find some minor issues no different that running a registry cleaner which always find something but seldom makes the least bit of difference to anything. Longer form: Having also used Outlook for as long as you have based on your description - the only time I've ever run ScanPST is there is something suddenly strange going - fortunately, that has been a rare occurrence - beyond that, don't waste Will give you my own personal take on running ScanPST for preventative purposes. No particular reason why I decided to ask this now, but things are quiet and I decided to see what others find! Then should anything happen, you can quickly and easily roll back to the most recent backup with minimal loss Once you have a backup plan in place, you can relax on worring about regular maintenece. Put a backup plan in place to backup your PST and or Outlook Outlook Repair Toolbox - Īlternatively you could just use Microsoft PST Backup Tool Once Corrupt and inacessible, more often than not SCANPST does not restore the PST/Data 100%īest measure your going to have against corruption, is a Backup I also wouldnt worry about running scanpst regurally for preventative measures as this does not gurantee the PST will not become corrupt over time or inacessible. Personally I wouldnt worry about it as the errors/repairs seem to be something of a Red Herring Or Folder/Contents which may have been moved or deleted
This could be anything but likley to be related to Calendar/Appointments/Reminders is being copied into the PST Then its most certain the somthing being copied over from the current PST into the new one is causing the errors If Scan PSt shows no errors or issues when a New PST is Created No particular reason why I decided to ask this now, but things are quiet I seem to get the same issue on both of those, and if I recall correctly, I have had this going way back (probably to Win2K - Outlook 2000 and possibly Win98SE - Outlook 97 even). The PST files vary in size up to about 1.5GB but even the smaller ones (100MB or less) seem to get errors that are fixed.
MICROSOFT OUTLOOK INBOX REPAIR TOOL STUCK ON INITIALIZING WINDOWS
I have various machines with various versions of windows including:
Just to be clear, I always backup my PST file before running the tool (it also asks if you want to backup before repairing, but I do my own backup prior anyway), and I have never had any obvious issues being caused by errors in the file, so this is just a matter
Single PST file that got corrupted years ago and has never 'recovered' fully from that. I probably did this last when I went from Outlook 2003 to Outlook 2007 around two or three years ago, so its not like this is a I have over the years periodically created a brand new PST file, copied everything over, and kept the old one as a backup. My question is: Does everyone find and fix these (presumably minor) errors all the time when running scanpst.exe, or is it just me? Is it indicative of something significantly wrong somewhere, or just part of life, run it, fix the errors, and move I therefore, keep running it until it says it found no errors. I also note that, if I run the scan against the same PST file twice, it often finds errors the second run (and even subsequent runs). I have been doing this for years, and I never seem to have any actual problems with Outlook or my PST file - its just a scheduled task and preventative maintenance. I ran it today (about two months since the last run), and I have attached the log file for reference. I regularly run Microsoft's Inbox Repair Tool (scanpst.exe) against my PST file(s).